Word: luce
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...foreign parts as well. The daughter of a onetime Republican Congressman, Nebraska's Malcolm Baldrige, she went to Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Conn. and to Vassar, served as social secretary to Mrs. David K.E. Bruce (when Bruce was ambassador in Paris) and Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce in Rome (Roman Candle, Tish's memoirs of her days in Italy, was published in 1956). Jackie and Tish have been friends since both were schoolgirls in Farmington...
Since their marriage last year, ex-R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, 45, unlucky in love with Princess Margaret, and his second wife, Belgian ex-Photographer Marie-Luce, 21, have lived quietly in a Paris suburb, collaborated on the house work, relaxed with morning constitutionals. Arriving in Manhattan last week, they put up in a modest hotel. Townsend, who once snidely ticked off the U.S. as a materialistic nation of salesmen, had possibly come to the U.S. to sell something but craftily kept the exact nature of his fortnight's ''business trip" a stiff-upper-lipped mystery...
...surprise of no one except rumormongers, Republican Clare Boothe Luce, onetime Connecticut Congresswoman and former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, declared: "Plainly there should be no question of my loyalty to the Republican Party and its distinguished candidates, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Lodge, for whom I have the greatest respect...
...backed Kennedy's interpretations in a formal statement (TIME, Oct. 10). Last week a group of 169 prominent Catholic laymen -including such ardent Democrats as Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy and Connecticut's Senator Tom Dodd, and such solid Nixon Republicans as former Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and Professor Francis G. Wilson of the University of Illinois -published a landmark "statement of religious liberty." The statement not only backed Kennedy's position that his religion could and would not compromise his actions as President, but went beyond Kennedy, and Father Weigel, in flatly deploring the denial...
...1940s, Connecticut Playwright Clare Boothe Luce and California Actress Helen Gahagan Douglas added a much-needed touch of glamour to feminine political talent in Congress. Republican Luce raked the New Deal with quotable oratory, warned repeatedly of the rising power of Communist Russia. Six years after retirement, she was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Italy, served with distinction before resigning...